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    Non-isolated 30 kW class arcjet PCU

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    A 30 kW class arcjet Power Conditioning Unit, PCU, was built and tested during this Phase 2 SBIR contract. The PCU is an improved version of two previously developed PCU's. All of these units are 3-phase, 20 kHz buck regulators with current mode feed back to modulate the duty cycle to control the arcjet current at any selected operating point. The steady state control can assure arcjet stability despite the negative dynamic resistance of the arc discharge. The system also has a circuit to produce a high voltage start pulse to breakdown the gas and initiate the arc. The start pulse is formed by temporarily switching a short current path across the output terminals with a special solid state switching array. The switches then open rapidly, and the energy stored in the output inductors of the buck regulator produces a pulse of approximately 2500 V for approximately 500 nsec. The system was tested and modified until the transition to steady operation occurred after start up with a very small surge current overshoot. The system also can withstand a direct short circuit across the output without damage. The automatic feed back control simply reduces the duty cycle to hold the current at the set point. When the short is removed the full power output is immediately restored. This latest version arcjet PCU is conduction cooled to remove waste heat by conduction to the base plate. This unit is closer to flight a type of design than the previous functional bread boards. Waste heat is small because the PCU has a very high efficiency, 296 percent. The PCU was extensively tested with resistor loads to simulate operation with an arcjet. The unit was tested with ammonia arcjets at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Approximately 400 hours of testing were completed, with several starts. Many hours were also demonstrated with resistive loads. Some testing with hydrogen arcjets was also carried out at NASA LeRC. This system concept is now the design base for the ATTD program

    Hamiltonian Formalism of the de-Sitter Invariant Special Relativity

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    Lagrangian of the Einstein's special relativity with universal parameter cc (SRc\mathcal{SR}_c) is invariant under Poincar\'e transformation which preserves Lorentz metric ημν\eta_{\mu\nu}. The SRc\mathcal{SR}_c has been extended to be one which is invariant under de Sitter transformation that preserves so called Beltrami metric BμνB_{\mu\nu}. There are two universal parameters cc and RR in this Special Relativity (denote it as SRcR\mathcal{SR}_{cR}). The Lagrangian-Hamiltonian formulism of SRcR\mathcal{SR}_{cR} is formulated in this paper. The canonic energy, canonic momenta, and 10 Noether charges corresponding to the space-time's de Sitter symmetry are derived. The canonical quantization of the mechanics for SRcR\mathcal{SR}_{cR}-free particle is performed. The physics related to it is discussed.Comment: 24 pages, no figur

    Crystal structure of bis(mu(2)-di-n-butyldithio-carbamato-kappa S-3,S ':S;kappa S-3:S:S ')-hexacarbonyl-di-rhenium(I), C24H36N2O6Re2

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    C24H36N2O6Re2, triclinic, P (1) over bar (no. 2), a = 10.3013(2) angstrom, b = 11.3471(2) angstrom, c = 14.5967(3) angstrom, alpha = 72.540(2)degrees, beta = 73.074(2)degrees,gamma = 85.369(2)degrees, V = 1557.05(6) angstrom(3), Z = 2, R-gt(F) = 0.0214, wR(ref)(F-2) = 0.0466, T = 100(2) K
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